Patti LaBelle-Style Sweet Potato Pie - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 Pie Dough
- All-purpose flour for dusting
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, divided
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar, divided
- Kosher salt
- 2 large orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (about 1 3/4 pounds)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup half-and-half
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Instructions
- Roll out prepared dough into a 13 ” round on a lightly floured surface. Roll dough loosely around rolling pin then carefully unfurl into 9 ” deep dish pie plate. Lightly press into plate. Leave 1 ” dough hanging over edge, trimming any excess dough. Tuck dough under itself, then crimp edge as desired. Cover with plastic wrap and chill while making filling, at least 30 minutes or overnight.
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400 °F.
- Uncover pie shell, prick bottom with a fork, and brush bottom and sides with 1 Tbsp. melted butter, leaving edge unbuttered. Sprinkle 1/4 cup brown sugar over bottom. Bake until pie dough is set and just beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack, about 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 °F.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).
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